All that great tech that the US govt invests for spec ops and they didn't have thermal scopes night vision long range audio surveillance (where were the battlefield DRONES the DoD is crowing about all the time?) and silencers to handle long distance threats silently?....You have lost my respect.....What ISN'T a bungling mess these days under Oblamer?
A quick web search didn't find anything on it, but I remember back in the 60's Colt's contract on 1911's had long since run out. Smith & Wesson had the police revolver market sewed up. The civilian revolver market was mostly Smith's and Colt's small market share was all that was keeping their lights on. Smith came out in favor of a ban on civilian ownership of handguns, thinking this would drive Colt out of business.
That was Strike 1.
Years later they crawled in bed with the Clinton administration thinking to avoid some grief associated with proposed anti-gun legislation.
That was Strike 2.
Frankly, I do not currently own any Smith product and see no reason to change that any time in the future. If they closed their doors tomorrow it would be OK by me.
At some point I no longer care what happens to this company. There are lots of fishies in the sea, and lots of gun companies that don't lick government boots.
# 1 : Gun owners bailed S&W out once. It seems unlikely they'll do it twice.
#2 : BATF "solved" this problem years ago .
#3: For progressives theres never, "enough" - of anything.
#4 : We taxpayers have only ourselves to blame. We can insist/enforce serious "shoot house" training" for all LEOs we put on the street. . But we must be willing to pay the piper. So far we haven't.
I'm more of a cat person myself, but there is no denying the value of a dog as a "security system." It doesn't even have to be a big dog, though that might be preferred. It just has to bark loudly when it hears (or smells?) anything unusual.
A dog will sense things going on around your house long before you would notice anything. Much of his barking will probably be false alarms, but depending on the risks you face, that may be a very small price to pay.
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All that great tech that the US govt invests for spec ops and they didn't have thermal scopes night vision long range audio surveillance (where were the battlefield DRONES the DoD is crowing about all the time?) and silencers to handle long distance threats silently?....You have lost my respect.....What ISN'T a bungling mess these days under Oblamer?
Sign me Neal Jensen
Lesson learned, get a dog.
They couldn't have brought along a cop to shoot the dog?
Dogs have been the early warning system of choice for decades and always will be. Had it not been for a dog, likely ST6 would have carried the day.
A quick web search didn't find anything on it, but I remember back in the 60's Colt's contract on 1911's had long since run out. Smith & Wesson had the police revolver market sewed up. The civilian revolver market was mostly Smith's and Colt's small market share was all that was keeping their lights on. Smith came out in favor of a ban on civilian ownership of handguns, thinking this would drive Colt out of business.
That was Strike 1.
Years later they crawled in bed with the Clinton administration thinking to avoid some grief associated with proposed anti-gun legislation.
That was Strike 2.
Frankly, I do not currently own any Smith product and see no reason to change that any time in the future. If they closed their doors tomorrow it would be OK by me.
Goodbye, Smith & Wesson!
"Dogs have been the early warning system of choice for decades and always will be. Had it not been for a dog, likely ST6 would have carried the day."
Decades? More like millennia!
http://www.lneilsmith.org/smithandwessonmustdie.html
At some point I no longer care what happens to this company. There are lots of fishies in the sea, and lots of gun companies that don't lick government boots.
# 1 : Gun owners bailed S&W out once. It seems unlikely they'll do it twice.
#2 : BATF "solved" this problem years ago .
#3: For progressives theres never, "enough" - of anything.
#4 : We taxpayers have only ourselves to blame. We can insist/enforce serious "shoot house" training" for all LEOs we put on the street. . But we must be willing to pay the piper. So far we haven't.
>jeff
I'm more of a cat person myself, but there is no denying the value of a dog as a "security system." It doesn't even have to be a big dog, though that might be preferred. It just has to bark loudly when it hears (or smells?) anything unusual.
A dog will sense things going on around your house long before you would notice anything. Much of his barking will probably be false alarms, but depending on the risks you face, that may be a very small price to pay.
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